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The groups are run by Tom Pyle, a former lobbyist for Koch Industries. Pyle regularly attends the mega-donor summits organized by the Koch brothers, including the 2012 winter summit in Indian Wells, Calif., where the Kochs raised more than $150 million to be directed to groups ahead of the general election.

In all, the brothers’ network is aiming to steer significantly more than $200 million to conservative groups for political advertising and organizing ahead of Election Day.

The American Energy Alliance’s ad campaign, which launches Friday in eight states, hammers Obama for his decision on the Keystone XL pipeline and recycles a 2008 quote from Energy Secretary Steven Chu about the benefits of European-level gas prices.

The ads come after the Kochs’ primary political group, Americans for Prosperity, earlier this year launched a $6 million ad campaign calling out Obama over the now-defunct, government-subsidized maker of solar power components, Solyndra.

Democrats have pounced on the Koch brothers as bogeymen representative of two favorite targets: Big Oil, which is one part of the brothers’ vast commercial business enterprise, and secret money. Neither Americans for Prosperity nor the American Energy Alliance discloses its donors.

Democratic National Committee spokesman Brad Woodhouse on Thursday accused the brothers of “funding yet another shadowy outside group to defend the interests of Big Oil and protect their own tax breaks and profits with Mitt Romney being the ultimate beneficiary.”

The DNC attack echoes the Obama reelection campaign’s first ad, which was a direct response to the Americans for Prosperity ad and blasted “secretive oil billionaires attacking President Obama, with ads fact-checkers say are ‘not tethered to the facts.’”

It is amazing to me that there is more "noise" about Soro's $100,000 donation to Obama's campaign that this $200 MILLION effort of the Koch brothers to take over the GOP and right wing conservatives. Even if Citizen's United had not been passed these wealthy extremists can still broadcast any message they like.

It seems that older American's and the uneducated are far more susceptible to ads and media than young people and those with more education. In the age of the Internet most thinking people have learned to be much more discerning about the real forces behind advertising.

Once again the Koch brothers and others like them spend money to convince Americans to stay addicted to oil, and let oil companies continue to suck our wallets dry as the costs inevitably go up because of developing 3rd world countries using more oil & gas (especially China) and a dwindling supply of oil that we've been drilling up and burning for around 100 years already.

Can the President really do anything to change the price of gasoline? Why yes! He can tax gasoline suppliers an additional $4 billion per year. This is “Obama-speak” for “I want to make gasoline so expensive that everyone will be forced to buy $40,000 Volts from my UAW pals.”

If the government suddenly decided to tax bakers $4 billion more, do you think that would influence the price of bread to go higher or go lower?

So by your peculiar logic, if the Federal Government increaes the subsidies to the Oil Companies by say 25 Billion dollars, the price of Gas at the pump will decline?? There is no justication whatsoever for the American people subsidizing the Oil Industry and it ought be stopped at once and would be but for the Republicans.

Why do the Koch brothers hide behind layers of corporate covers? If they have something legitimate to say to us why not just say it directly and in their own names? Why do they hide behind corporate shills such as Americans for Whatever, or Amerians United for Whatever? No they prefer deceit, secrecy, perfidy, slight of hand. They don't want their lies to attach to them. They are a pernicous threat to our political life and we need to know much more about them.

Is the Institute for Energy Reasearch really a Koch family front group?

Let's check the facts. here's one accusation made by this hack that pretends to be a journalist.

The groups are run by Tom Pyle, a former lobbyist for Koch Industries.

So let's see what Politico has to say about this person.

Thomas Pyle

Thomas J. Pyle is the president of the Institute for Energy Research. In this capacity, Pyle brings a unique backdrop of public and private sector experience to help manage IER’s Washington, DC-based staff and operations. He also helps to develop the organization’s free market policy positions and implement education efforts with respect to key energy stakeholders, including policymakers, federal agency representatives, industry leaders, consumer entities and the media.

Previously, Pyle was the founder of his own consulting firm, Pyle Consulting, Inc., an active public affairs consulting firm with a wide range of private and not-for-profit customers. Prior to starting his own firm, Pyle served as vice president of the Rhoads Group in Washington, DC where he represented and advised a variety of association and corporate clients in meeting their strategic public policy goals and priorities. Additionally, he also served as director of federal affairs for a major integrated manufacturing and services company focusing on energy, environment, regulatory and transportation issues.

Before coming to the private sector, Pyle held numerous positions on Capitol Hill including serving a policy analyst for the Majority Whip of the U.S. House of Representatives and as staff director for the Congressional Western Caucus, as well as other legislative staff positions.

Pyle holds a B.A. in political science from the University of Southern California.

www.politico.com/arena/bio/thomas_pyle.html

So I guess that because one of his clients when running Pyle Consulting, Inc. could have been the Koch Brothers it now connects him to the family no matter how tenuous the link appears.

The essential thing is for business owners, professional employees, and blue-collar employees to reframe the situation and see themselves as allies against the banksters. This requires all concerned to widen their horizons and take a larger view of things. When I say business owners, I am talking about companies run by individual proprietors. Large corporations are a different kind of beast. They almost inevitably have an adversarial relationship with their employees and with society in general. The challenge for the government (assuming the government is on the right side) is to somehow persuade the corporations (including banks) to act in the interest of society, which means acting against their own interest to some extent.

so what is wrong, why shouldn't they be able to say that they do not like Obama's policies! the left media is not taking this up anyway (as long they can avoid it) as they love Obama. Unfortunately, this is sometimes the only way to get some attention .... just see what Soros does all the time ..... example: I didn't like Santorum's "Obamaville" ad at all, but then I see "moveon.org" poison sprinkling .... still Santorum should not go to the same level. .... too much poison everywhere .... Obama and his gang should not complain about anything

Obamanomics is National Socialism. The government should remove all subsidies from oil, coal, gas, hydro, nuclear, wind and solar. Let the chips fall where they may, since it's a carbon economy, George.

Koch-Americans for Koch-Prosperity trademarked a logo in July 2011 (RUNNING ON EMPTY $) and planned it even earlier, long before "speculators" drove the price of gasoline up sky high. It seems that they had advance intelligence about the future prices of gasoline.

Word Mark RUNNING ON EMPTY $ Goods and Services IC 035. US 100 101 102. G & S: Association services, namely, promoting the interests of U.S. citizens as they relate to energy issues, promoting public awareness of policy issues regarding energy usage and energy management, and promoting the need for more efficient government. FIRST USE: 20110601. FIRST USE IN COMMERCE: 20110601

What a joke.The Koch brothers are the tip of the spear on oil speculation and then they run around to the other side and own many of the oil refineries that control/restict the supply of gasoline, driving up the price. They laugh all the way to the bank, while contributing hundreds of millions of dollars on ads accusing the President of being the cause of high gas prices. I firmly believe that they are increasing gas prices solely for the purpose of trying to defeat the President. The GOP will make even a deal with the devil to get back the White House. It won't work though because eventually all lies come to the light as this one will. The President will win again, and when he does he needs to start an anti-trust investigation against the Koch brothers and their surrogates.